Hong Kong authorities are investigating a fatal industrial accident involving a 45-year-old technician who is suspected of being electrocuted to death at a primary school in Sheung Shui.
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Police were alerted at 10.53am on Friday to the incident at the campus on Wo Muk Road in Fanling. The worker, 45, was believed to have been electrocuted before losing consciousness.
He was sent to the North District Hospital in Sheung Shui, where he was pronounced dead at around noon, police said.
The Labour Department said it was investigating the fatal work accident.
“The Labour Department immediately deployed staff to the scene upon receiving a report of the accident and is now conducting an investigation to look into its cause,” it said.
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